NM Health Innovations are proud to offer a full clinical team working across all surgeries
Doctors
Dr N J Muttucumaru
Dr Muttucumaru the owner and clinical lead for the organisation, qualified as a Doctor in 1985 at The University of Leicester.
He became a GP in 1993 and in 2009 was successful in his bid to provide the primary care needs for the Buckshaw Village development and soon afterwards opened a brand new surgery.
Dr Muttucumaru has a wide range of interests, and is passionate in his desire to offer community based services for patients from the surgery.
He also provides an innovative continuity of care model for patients located within the Oakbridge Retirement Village complex, specifically tailored to meet the needs of dementia patients and for long term rehabilitation patients.
Dr Kapil Sharma
Dr Sharma has been a GP since 2008. He started his medical career at St Andrews and Manchester and worked locally in Chorley General Hospital up until 2004.
He then trained as a GP at St Albans/Hemel and Watford.
He moved to Buckshaw to be closer to his extended family.
His areas of medical interest include diabetes and joint injections/musculoskeletal medicine.
Dr Sharma can often be found working Monday, Wednesday and Friday at CMC.
He works on the walk in clinic in the morning and offers pre-bookable appointments in the afternoon.
Dr Sharma works from Buckshaw Village on a Tuesday and Thursday offering pre bookable appointments.
Dr Omar Al-Falahi
Dr Al-Falahi is based at Buckshaw Village Surgery on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays,
He graduated from medical school in 2011 and worked in Iraq, Oman and the USA before starting working for the NHS in January 2019.
Dr Al-Falahi's first UK clinical experience was in internal medicine at East Surrey Hospital. His previous clinical experience was mainly in emergency medicine.
He started his GP speciality training in August 2019 in east Lancashire and completed his training in August 2022. He has a particular interest in rheumatology.
Dr Ronald Kato
Dr Kato qualfied from St Andrews and Manchester Medical School in 2008.
He worked in various posts including A&E, paediatrics, psychiatry and obstetrics and also gynaecology. completing his GP training in 2013.
Prior to joining NM Health Innovation, he worked as a GP in Huyton, Whiston and Southport.
He works full time at Croston Medical Centre and has special interests in medical education and women's health.
Dr Kato is also a qualified Medical Examiner.
Dr Mohamad Nadzam
Dr Nadzam graduated from medical school in 2009 and did foundation training and general medicine training in Preston and Chorley afterwards.
He completed his GP training in Wigan. His special interests are dermatology and women's health.
Dr Sushma Kumari
Dr Kumari has re-trained to be a GP to work at primary care level and contribute to the system with her surgical skills and keen interest in cancer diagnosis and care. She qualified as a GP in September 2022.
As a part of her training, she has worked in Royal Preston hospital and various GP surgeries in Central and West Lancashire.
Dr Kumari qualified as a Medical Doctor in 2008 from a highly reputed medical college in New Delhi, India.
She has experience working as a junior doctor in Accident and emergency and paediatrics.
She then moved on to qualify as a General surgeon with double Masters in General surgery and qualified postgraduate diploma exams to be a Member of Royal College of Surgeons ( MRCS, London).
She has trained and worked as a Senior Clinical Fellow at the Christie NHS Trust, Manchester.
This included training in open, laparoscopic and robotic cancer surgery involving gynaecological, anal, bowel and peritoneal cancers. This was followed by her stint as a Surgical Registrar in Stockport NHS Foundation Trust .
She is currently working three days a week: Monday, Wednesday and Thursday at Buckshaw Village surgery.
Dr Kumari has recently started doing Minor surgery sessions at BVS on Thursday morning once a month. This would cover a variety of lumps and bumps that can be managed under local anaesthesia in a primary care setting.
Dr George Maduabuchi
Dr Maduabuchi worked at a family practice in Gillingham from 2014 and is presently a salaried GP doing eight sessions a week, one of these sessions being taken up with minor surgery.
He also an interest in the practice of the detection and management of patients with atrial fibrillation and has run screening exercises during our flu vaccination clinics.
During training, Dr Maduabuchi did rotations in A&E, medicine, psychiatry and pediatrics with two ITP rotations, one on O&G and one in dermatology.
He has also worked in paediatrics at Darent Valley Hospital, North Tyneside General Hospital and James Cook University Hospital in Middlesbrough and the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle.
He has been surgianl house officer at Aberdeen Royal Informary and has also worked in Niger and Nigeria where he studied at the College of Medicine at the University of Nigeria.
Dr Sania Ahmed
Dr Kay Ayoade
Dr Chris Scales
Advanced Nurse Practitioners
Mrs Tracy Muttucumaru
Miss Jacqui Chester
Ms Alex Atkinson
Below is a list of some of the common problems our Nurse Practitioners can treat:
Earache, sinusitis, hayfever, tonsillitis, sore throat, flu symptoms, chesty cough, asthma, laryngitis, conjunctivitis, diarrhoea, vomiting, constipation, abdominal pain, rashes, stings, abscess, athletes foot, eczema, shingles, chicken pox, emergency contraception, cystitis, vaginal discharge, back pain, stiff neck, pulled muscles, frozen shoulder, mastitis, tiredness.
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Practice Nurses
Are available to offer chronic disease management, blood pressure monitoring, travel advice and vaccinations, health checks, contraception advice, cervical screening and childhood immunisations.
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Sister Adele McNicholas
Sister Ilona Fashioni
Sister Lucy Affleck
Sister Rachael Catterall
Sister Karen Shevlin
Sister Julie Hayes
Sister Mandy Preece
Parademics
Parademics assist at our surgeries and in the field.
Mr Stephen Conroy
Ms Gill Despard
Healthcare Assistants
Healthcare assistants support practice nurses with their daily work and carry out tasks such as blood pressure measurement, diabetic foot checks and new patient screening. Our healthcare assistants also assist doctors in personal examinations where a chaperone may be required.
Ms Krystle Havard
Social Prescriber
Cheryl Davies is our full time social prescriber and has been with the group since 2019.
Medicine Management
Medicines Management provides specialist support to the clinical team, offering advice and guidance on suitable medication or alternative medication, as well as ensuring the practice is prescribing in line with current guidance from NICE, the CCG and NHSE.
Mrs Ela Patel: Medicines Co-Ordinator
Ms Carol Krosschell: Medicines Co-Ordinator
Ms Daniela Francovich: Medicines Co-Ordinator
Ms Nell Murtagh: Medicines Co-Ordinator
Ms Jessica McPherson: Pharmacy Technician
Practice Management
Mr Brian Hann
Business and Operations Manager
Ms Jessica Lea
Temporary Practice Manager. Operates across all sites
Ms Lorraine Kluczniak
Finance Manager. Operates across all sites
Julie Southern
Advanced Service Manager. Operates across all sites
Mr Tim Klapproth
Vaccine Operations Manager
Administration
Administrative staff provide an important link for patients with the practice and are your initial contact point for general enquiries. They can provide basic information on services and results and direct you to the right person depending on your health issue or query. Receptionists make the patient appointments with the GPs and nurses. They also perform other important tasks such as requesting repeat prescriptions and dealing with prescription enquiries.
Office Co-Ordinators
Ms Kerry Claringbold: Adlington Medical Centre & Eaves Lane Surgery
Mrs Sandra Howard: Lostock Hall Village Surgery & Medicare Unit Surgery
Ms Tracy Knot: Buckshaw Surgery
Mrs Beverley Norris: Croston Medical Centre
Aga
Care Co-ordinator |
Ellie
Care Co-ordinator |
Lottie
Medical secretary |
Hayley
Medical secretary |
Gemma
Receptionist/comms team - BVS |
Catherine
Receptionist/comms team - BVS |
Alice D
Receptionist/comms team - AMC |
Tony
Comms team and group comms |
Charlotte
Records clerk and new patient lead |
Caroline
Reception/comms/marketing - CMC |
Holly
Receptionist/comms team - TVS |
Lynsey
Receptionist/comms team - CMC |
Rachael
Receptionist/comms team - AMC |
Andrea S
Receptionist/comms team - ELS |
Sue
Receptionist/comms team - TVS/MUS |
Chloe
Receptionist/comms team - CMC |
Andrea K
Receptionist/comms team - CMC |
Maxine
Receptionist/comms team - TVS |
Sam H
Receptionist/comms team - BVS |
Amanda
Receptionist/comms team - BVS |
Jenna
Receptionist/comms team - ELS |
Kirsty
Receptionist/comms team - TVS |
Dawn
Receptionist/comms team - CMC |
Lianne
Receptionist/comms team - BVS |
Lizzy
Receptionist/comms team - TVS |
Alicia
Receptionist/comms team - TVS |
Serah
Receptionist/comms team - ELS |
Vicki
Clinical Coder/GP assistant - BVS |
Bonar
Physician Associate - BVS
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Medical Students
We have medical students on placement assisting us at certain times.